National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)

The Computational and Information Systems Laboratory (CISL) provides large computing resources for university researchers and NCAR scientists in atmospheric and related sciences.

Cheyenne, a 5.34 PFlops HPC system, provides more than 1.2 billion core-hours for allocation each year

Access granted through a variety of programs

University Allocations

Large requests >400K SUs: Requests accepted every six months, in March and September. 160M SUs awared in total each allocation cycle

Small requests <400K SUs: U.S. university researchers who are supported by NSF awards can request a small allocation for each NSF award. Requests accepted throughout the year and reviewed/awarded within a few business days.

Unsponsored Graduate Students and Postdocs: Small allocations are also available to graduate students and post-docs at U.S. universities; no NSF award or panel review is required.

The graduate student, postdoc, or faculty member must work in the atmospheric or related sciences;

Their work does not lie within the scope of an associated NSF grant; and

They do not have funding to pay for computer time.

NCAR

Climate Simulation Laboratory

Researchers must have funding from NSF awards to address the climate-related questions

submission deadline is March 26, 2018

minimum request is 20M SUs

Training

RC staff also guest lecture for various courses and provide various training
seminars in collaboration with other LTS groups

Research Computing at Lehigh

Linux: Basic Commands & Environment

Using SLURM scheduler on Sol

Shell Scripting

Using Virtualized Software at Lehigh

Python Programming

RefWorks

Document Creation with LaTeX

A Brief Introduction to Linux

Storage Options at Lehigh

Research Data Management

Version Control with GIT

Programming in MATLAB and GNU Octave

Enhancing Research Impact

Programming in R

Parallel Programming Concepts

Saltstack Config Management

Full Day Workshops

During the summer we provide full day workshops on programming topics

Summer 2015 Workshops

Modern Fortran Programming

C Programming

Summer 2017: HPC Parallel Programming Workshop

Programming in MPI, OpenMP and OpenACC

We also host full day workshops broadcast from other Supercomputing Centers